Notification Channels

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Overview

Notification Channels let you define a Slack webhook, email address, or custom webhook once and reuse it across alert rules and Pulse monitoring — no copy-pasting URLs every time you configure something new.

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Creating a channel

1. Go to Alerts → Channels tab
2. Click New Channel
3. Enter a name (e.g. “Ops Slack”, “On-call Email”)
4. Select the type: Slack, Email, or Webhook
5. Enter the destination (webhook URL or email address)
6. Save

The channel is now available in any alert rule and on the Pulse notification configuration.

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Using a saved channel

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In alert rules

When creating or editing an alert rule, the Send notification to section shows your saved channels first. Select one and the destination is filled in automatically. You can also enter a destination manually — useful for one-off rules where you don’t want a permanent channel saved.

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In Pulse monitoring

On the Pulse page, click Configure next to the anomaly alert section. Select a saved channel from the dropdown to route Pulse anomaly alerts there.

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Channel types

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Deleting a channel

Deleting a channel does not delete the alert rules or checks that use it — their destinations are preserved. Future rules will no longer see the deleted channel in the picker.

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Next step